It's Academic

Time to sign up for a day of creating, collaborating, crafting…and more!

TCLC (Tri-State College Library Cooperative) invites all library staff to explore ways you can turn your library into a maker space, a place where library and user interest converge to create ideas, projects or objects – and all on a shoestring budget!

Remember:

“The Maker Movement & You: Creating, Collaborating, and Crafting in Your Library”

The place? SugarLoaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College

The Date? April 24th, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm

See how academic and public libraries are collaborating within their communities.

Come learn how to prime your physical space for innovation and creation.

Please refer to this PDF flyer (also available at TCLC’s web site: http://tclclibs.org/) for speakers, program descriptions, and registration details.

Has something exciting happened at your library this last year that you want to share? Share it with Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice (PaLRaP), the peer reviewed, open access journal of PaLA’s CRD. Click here to submit information such as staff changes, awards/recognitions, events, initiatives, etc. happening in PA libraries that may be of interest to other libraries. Submission deadline is April 3.

For more information about PaLRaP, visit www.palrap.org.

PaLRaP is a peer reviewed, online, open access publication of the Pennsylvania Library Association’s College & Research Division. This journal will provide an opportunity for librarians in Pennsylvania to share their knowledge and experience with practicing librarians across the Commonwealth and beyond. It includes articles from all areas of librarianship, with a special focus on activities at or of interest to Pennsylvania’s academic libraries.

When available, audio and video content will supplement text based documents.

Published biannually: March and October

Editors: Anne Behler, Penn State University; John Barnett, University of Pittsburgh

Peer reviewers: Members of the Pennsylvania library community.

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You are invited!

On March 27, TCLC members Mary Beth Parkinson and Sara Hartman-Caverly–at Montgomery County Community College–will facilitate an active learning session to explore the concept of Inquiry Guided Learning (IGL), a teaching philosophy promoting student-centered learning through increasingly independent inquiry and investigation.

A morning of brainstorming will reveal ways to bring IGL principles and strategies to your information literacy instruction.

Participate in a discussion of the draft ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education.

Explore how IGL concepts relate to the ACRL guidelines, and more importantly, how to use them to produce more effective information literacy instruction.

Bring…

your lesson plans,

student learning outcomes,

classroom activities,

and your thoughts, questions, and ideas        

…to the workshop for discussion.

Remember!

“Engaging Information Literacy Instruction:

Applying Inquiry-Guided Learning Pedagogy to Information Literacy Teaching and Learning”.

The time? Friday, March 27, 2015

The place? Montgomery County Community College

Please refer to the flyer at http://tclclibs.org/ for complete details and registration information.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!